Coronavirus UK: How does the largest hospital in the world compare to the NHS Nightingale?

Three emergency hospitals are being built.

Coronavirus has led to a nationwide lockdown and the construction of three emergency hospitals in the UK.

The NHS Nightingale, which is being built at the ExCel Centre in London, is due to to open this week, with the constructions of field hospitals in Birmingham and Manchester also having been announced by health secretary Matt Hancock

With the bed capacities of these temporary hospitals set to hit the thousands, how do they compare to the biggest hospital in the world right now?

What is the biggest hospital in the world?

The largest hospital on the globe is considered by some to be Chang Gung -Memorial Hospital in Taiwan – this network comprises a total of seven hospitals with a combined total of 10,050 beds.

The most beds at a hospital on a single site can be found at First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in China, which has a capacity for over 7,000 beds.

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The emergency coronavirus hospital being built at the NEC in Birmingham will have a capacity for 5,000 beds, while the NHS Nightingale at the Exel Centre in London will be able to hold 4,000 beds.

The hospital being built in Manchester at the Central Convention Centre will have the capacity for 1,000 beds.

Even though they’re a ways away from being the largest, these hospitals will still rank among some of the biggest in the world.

At the NHS Nightingale, two morgues have been built on-site, and the army has brought in to speed up its construction.

Professor Stephen Powis, the National Medical Director of NHS England, has said: ‘The NHS Nightingale is really an extraordinary feat.

‘From a standing start, a day or two ago, a hospital will be built that will be able to take its first patients at the start of next week.

‘That is a remarkable achievement, that our staff, working with the military have been able to work on.’

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